Martha Wollstein

Martha Wollstein (November 21, 1868 – September 30, 1939) was an American physician. Wollstein was born in New York to a German Jewish family.

Biography Wollstein was educated at the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, which became part of the Cornell University Medical School in 1909. There she studied with Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, with whom she would later publish her first paper in 1902, on a myosarcoma of the uterus. Her work there included research on infant diarrhea, malaria, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever. and Pediatric Developmental Pathology. Obituary in JAMA Pediatrics. Entry at the Jewish Women's Archive.